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February 28, 2017

'Authentic' Food Is Not What You Think It Is

If those authentic old foods were so great, how come our ancestors were so eager to switch to processed foods?

The culprit most often identified is the power-mad food scientists of yesteryear, who convinced the housewives of previous generations to give up the good stuff in favor of tasteless packaged foods. The people who write these theories have apparently not spent much time observing today’s food scientists in their tireless quest to get people to stop eating the junk they like to eat now. If they had, they might have asked why yesterday’s food scientists had so much more power to alter dietary habits. And after they asked that question, they might have come to the conclusion that our ancestors switched because they liked the new foods better than whatever they were eating before. - - Bloomberg View

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 28, 2017 10:45 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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